The Real Deal #8

Surprisingly Easy

In one of this newsletter’s earlier issue we talked about roadmaps.

We are definitely on a journey. Entering a new space and reinventing ourselves, trying to share what we’re observing and learning.

Stumbling along in a lot of ways.

HOWEVER - what we have found is that as we wander around and meet true experts - scientists and business people - by and large there is a lot of eagerness to help.

We met friendly group of people from the Mass Clean Energy Center at an event last week. We explained what we have been up to and what we’re working on.

“That’s really big, what you’re trying to do,” one of them said.

Entering a new space can often - usually - not be as welcoming.

These people are amazing. “Fighting the good fight,” as they say. These are people who are smart, passionate, dedicated, unapologetic, and hard-working. There is resolve, commitment, and positivity all around. And they want more people in the space.

We are not on the “front lines” when we attend these meetings. These are people who see first-hand all the data about temperatures are rising, how wind farms generate electricity and how much, fight for permits and explain complex engineering to resources working on their projects who sometimes don’t think this is the right thing to be doing.

One thing that surprised me about their website was the job listing page.

The site states that Massachusetts has 4% of all US clean energy jobs, while the MA population is only 2% of the US in total.

I did a quick once-over of the jobs on their board. When you look at he different skills and “transferability” of the jobs (can a person switch in and out of the clean energy industry to do this stuff?), the numbers are interesting.

That’s it for this week! Been a busy one! I think that this is a strong case for why this space. I hope this gives some of those interested some insights into what kinds of things they can do if interested in clean energy.

I hope to do a deeper into these numbers on a national level in a future issue.